Louis Meyers can seem like a holdover from a bygone era in broadcasting, when television interviewers had a more formal and reserved style. As host of “Meet the Author,” a monthly talk show on Town ...

In 2001, on WHTJ's For The Record, Dr. Charles Sydnor interviewed Jim Lehrer. In 2001, on WHTJ's For The Record, Dr. Charles Sydnor interviewed Jim Lehrer, co-creator of The NewsHour. Enjoy this trip ...

Hi, I hope you are having a good summer. I just thought that I should come clean and admit here, on this show, that I have a problem. I'm of course talking about gardening. The issue is I'm not good ...

Let me begin by saying that I mean Big Bird no harm. And that I love Ken Burns. I donate to PBS stations. I’ve taken calls on their behalf as a phone bank volunteer during televised pledge drives.

The life of longtime instructor Tom Lehrer was marked by the conventions and constructs he defied: from the grand political and social trends of his day that he bucked with sardonic lyrics and playful ...

A measure of Tom Lehrer’s enduring accomplishments as a musical satirist is that the political songs he wrote remain as fresh and relevant today as they were when he sat solo at his piano, playing and ...

Tom Lehrer never identified closely with his ancestral Judaism. But the famed satirist and mathematician, who died Saturday at 97, wrote one of the first popular songs about a Jewish holiday. “(I’m ...

Satire, George S. Kaufman famously said, is what closes on Saturday night. Meaning, of course, that it has a limited run because of its intrinsically circumscribed interest. To this, one might add a ...

FILE - Musician Tom Lehrer sits beside the piano in his house in Santa Cruz, Calif., on April 21, 2000. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who ...

LOS ANGELES — Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard ...